Improvement in cultivators



NITED STATES BATENTL OFFICE.

D. G. BENNER, OF HOLMESVILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 99,625, dated February 8, 1870 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Gr. BENNER, of Holmesville,in thecountyof Holmes and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improved Cultivator; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a clear and exact description of thereof,snffi cientto enable others skilled in the art to which inyinvention appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view ofmy improved cultivator, and Fig. 3 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detached view of one of the cultivator-teeth.

Similar letters indicatolike parts in all the figures.

My invention consists in so arranging the beams of the several cultivator-teeth, in connection with braces attached thereto, that greater strength with the same amountof material is attained, as compared with the ordin ary cultivator, while the draft is less, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, ais the main beam of the cultivator, turned up in fornt, as seen at b, Fig. 1, and terminated in a ring, I), where the power to operate the cultivator is applied. The rear end of the main beam 1) is curved at 0, as seen in Fig. 1, and to thelower portion of the curved beam 0 a tooth, e, is se curely bolted or otherwise fastened.

d d are two beams attached to the main beam a. at d. I These beams 01 d lie at equal distances from the main beam a, or are symmetrically situated with regard to said beam, as plainly shown in Fig. 2-. These side beams, d d, are

curved at their lower ends, and have teeth e c bolted or otherwise attached thereto.

or m arebraces bolted or otherwise securely fastened to the main beam at n, and to theside beams, (l (I, at a a. A quadrilateral figure, m m d d, is thus formed, having the main or center beam, a, for its diagonal, the several parts of which are so constructed and. arranged as to strengthen each other and resist any strain thrown upon them,while the draft is facilitated by the arrangement and construction being such as to allowthe parts to be made of less cumbrous material than is ordinarily employed. 7

r r p p are braces bolted or otherwise securely fastened to the main beam,and diverging therefrom at the points z-and a. (See Fig. 2.) These braces r r10 unite at the points a c, and are connected together at their ends by the rods or braces s.

h h are the handles of the cultivator.

It is obvious by this arrangement and construction of the parts I am enabled to make a cultivator of easy draft, while it is also capable of resisting any strain.

I am aware that the various parts of my device separately are not new, and I therefore disclaim them; but

WVhat I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

, The combination and arrangement of ,the main center beam, to, side beams, 01, braces m m, and handles r r1019 8 h, the parts being con- "structed and operated substantially as set forth.

The above signed by me this 22d day of January, 1870.

D. G. lBENNER.

Witnesses:

J OHN A. WIEDERsHErM, W, H. FtNoKEL. 

